Chair
Penelope ROSKELL
Chair
Date of appointment: December 1, 2023
Term end year: 2026
Penelope Roskell is Professor of Piano and Pedagogy at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, London and Chair of EPTA UK. She is a world leader in the field of injury prevention and recovery and piano advi...
Steve Broadbent
Treasurer
Date of appointment: October 20, 2024
Steve is an experienced ex-Chartered Accountant, having qualified in 1981. Over his career, he has held senior accounting roles in a variety of industries until his retirement in 2019. His extensiv...
Trustees
Yulia Chaplina
Trustee
Date of appointment: May 23, 2022
Term end year: 2025
Described by International Piano Magazine as “quintessentially Russian” and “with technical fluency and rich tonal shading reminiscent of the great Communist era artists such a...
Susan Craxton
Trustee
Date of appointment: October 20, 2024
Term end year: 2027
Sue Craxton studied piano pedagogy with Margaret Murray-McLeod while at Napier College in Edinburgh, where she was awarded a medal for ‘outstanding achievement’. She went on to study with Joseph...
Angela Fogg
Trustee
Date of appointment: October 20, 2024
Term end year: 2027
Angela Fogg (MA LRSM CKME MISM FRSA) is a teaching musician leading a double life as teacher of piano and Kodály musicianship. She studied piano with EPTA’s founder Carola Grindea for several ye...
Sharon GOODEY
Trustee
Date of appointment: June 19, 2023
Term end year: 2026
Sharon has been teaching piano for over 45 years at various schools, including Felsted and Brentwood and has been committed to EPTA for many years as Regional Organiser for Essex. Her background an...
Lewis KESTERTON
Trustee
Date of appointment: August 9, 2023
Term end year: 2026
Lewis Kesterton is a classical pianist, teacher, and writer based in London. Following an ambition to become a musician from an early age, he commenced his formal education in 2015 at the Royal Bir...
Gigi CHI YING LAM
Trustee
Date of appointment: June 19, 2023
Term end year: 2026
Gigi is a musician-educator who was born and raised in Hong Kong. After completing her study at the Royal College of Music, She lectures at the University of Southampton and is the convenor of the ...
Murray murraymclachlan
Trustee
Date of appointment: June 19, 2023
Term end year: 2026
Since making his professional debut in 1986 at the age of 21 under the baton of Sir Alexander Gibson, Murray McLachlan has consistently received outstanding critical acclaim. Educated at Chetham’s ...
Beate TOYKA
Trustee
Date of appointment: June 19, 2023
Term end year: 2026
German born Beate Toyka is a graduate of Cologne Conservatoire and the Royal Academy of Music in London where she studied with Hamish Milne. After touring in central and Eastern Europe Beate moved ...
Claire Vane
Trustee
Date of appointment: May 30, 2024
Term end year: 2027
Claire Vane, MA (Cantab), LTCL Claire has forty years of commercial experience inside and outside of the music industry, involving development and implementation of sales and marketing strategy....
Anthony Williams
Trustee
Date of appointment: June 19, 2023
Term end year: 2026
Anthony Williams MMus GRSM(Hons) LRAM ARAM Concert pianist, writer, lecturer, ABRSM examiner and moderator, and festival adjudicator, Anthony Williams studied at the Royal Academy of Mu...
President
Andrew Higgins
Business Manager
Date of appointment: September 1, 2023
Andrew Higgins was born in England and after studying Piano at the London College of Music and graduating from the University of Surrey specialising in Composition and Performance with Musicology, ...
Lesley Graham
Administrator
Date of appointment: August 1, 2024
Lesley Graham is an experienced education leader with over 25 years in the education sector, specialising in both further and higher education. From October 2018 to July 2024, she served as Executi...
Anna McWatters
Communications and Marketing Co-ordinator
Date of appointment: October 1, 2024
Anna (BMus, DipLCM) is an established peripatetic music teacher from Northern Ireland teaching piano, vocals and music theory across locals schools and junior music academies. Anna studied Music at...
Talia Girton
Editor Piano Professional
Date of appointment: September 1, 2023
Talia is the founder and director of The Cycling Music Teachers, a collective of piano and voice instructors who travel to student homes by bicycle. Having worked in music education and music thera...
